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Sept. 16 Brown Bag: Negotiating on Innovation and Access to Medicines in the TRIPS Agreement
O'Neill Institute

The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law invites you to
 

Negotiating on Innovation and Access to Medicines in the TRIPS Agreement
A Brown Bag Presentation with Professor Jayashree Watal

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Friday, September 16, 2016
McDonough Room 220
Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Ave NW
Washington DC 20001

Professor Watal is Counsellor in the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization, where she has dealt with negotiations on TRIPS and public health. She has more than twenty two years of experience in government in India, of which ten years was devoted to policy, diplomacy, research and administration on intellectual property rights, including representing India in the TRIPS negotiations. She has researched and published on issues related to intellectual property rights, including a book Intellectual Property Rights in the WTO and Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, India and Kluwer Law International, 2001). She was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Development at Harvard University (2000) and at the Institute for International Economics, Washington DC (Oct. 1998-August 2000) and at the George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. (1997- 2000). Professor Watal worked in the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce as Director, Trade Policy Division, New Delhi (1995-1998). She has a post-master's degree in trade law (DESS) from the University of Paris-V; M.A. in Economics from Gokhale Institute for Politics and Economics, Pune, India; and a B.A. from Fergusson College, Pune, India.

Space is limited. Please RSVP via email to aeh127@law.georgetown.edu by September 14th. 

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